Comment on What are the activity_id formats for various platforms?
admiralpatrick@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoAt startup, it calls /api/v3/federated_instances and stores the result to a lookup variable. Then I’ve got a couple of helper functions that accept either an instance ID or a domain name which looks them up from the lookup variable.
moseschrute@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ahh that makes sense. I guess you couldn’t search anything your instance doesn’t federate with anyway.
admiralpatrick@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I believe you can, yeah, and I also think that “bootstraps” that instance to yours if it doesn’t already know about it. But in that case, the way I have the search written, it’ll “fall back” to regular search which also does
resolveObject. That just takes longer.The ap_id check is just to short-circuit that behavior to avoid the lengthy, often unnecessary, search and quickly redirect you to your instance’s local copy.
Have had that working for about a week now, and it’s pretty nice. Please do steal this feature lol.
moseschrute@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I believe it bootstraps the object, not the instance. You still won’t be able to find an object from an instance you don’t federate with.
This is based on an explanation from @MrKaplan@lemmy.world, unless I misunderstood MrKaplan?
admiralpatrick@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh, I meant just if the instance isn’t know, I thought resolving would make it “aware” of that instance. I could be wrong. But yeah, the instance would have to federate with the other one for it to be able to resolve, though. e.g. it won’t resolve an object from an instance that is on the current instance’s “block” list.